In a circular economy for remanufacturing, after each life cycle used products are returned to a remanufacturer for identification, inspection, sorting and reprocessing. Shortcomings and requirements of the remanufact...
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In a circular economy for remanufacturing, after each life cycle used products are returned to a remanufacturer for identification, inspection, sorting and reprocessing. Shortcomings and requirements of the remanufacturing market are identified through expert interviews and process analysis. A concept is proposed to enable an improved identification and a more objective inspection by enhancing the working environment and processes of sorting stations. Digitization and machine learning are applied on business data, using machine vision as well as sensor and actor skills of the worker. With an experimental case study on visual object recognition a positive impact on identification and thus sorting could be demonstrated.
Due to the process, metal foams produced by powder metallurgy have an inhomogeneous pore structure. The pore size variations from a few tenths of a millimeter up to the centimeter range is so typical. This leads to in...
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Many real world applications for Microsoft HoloLens*-based applications suffer the problem of reliably recognizing and identifying movable objects within an environment. While the HoloLens is perfectly able to discern...
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(纸本)9781728147666
Many real world applications for Microsoft HoloLens*-based applications suffer the problem of reliably recognizing and identifying movable objects within an environment. While the HoloLens is perfectly able to discern already known rooms, it still has troubles with reflecting surfaces or identically shaped objects. Using dedicated recognition libraries for each task poses the issue of shared resource access in the rather controlled HoloLens environment-In this poster we present a solution for scenario with hard to track objects and similarly shaped objects for an electrical cabinet assembly task, where the reflective cabinet is tagged with a marker and the prefabricated cables are differentiated by text-based labels.
Traditionally, aspects such as emissions and energy consumption have to be taken into account for environmental and economic reasons when it comes to transport. In other areas of logistics, such as production logistic...
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(纸本)9781728132839
Traditionally, aspects such as emissions and energy consumption have to be taken into account for environmental and economic reasons when it comes to transport. In other areas of logistics, such as production logistics and intralogistics, the energy aspect is also becoming increasingly important. Existing literature has been recently reviewed in a contribution of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation (ASIM) to the Winter Simulation Conference 2018 (Uhlig et al. 2018) to develop a map of common approaches and best practices for manufacturing and logistics systems. In the paper presented here, as a complement we are focusing on the application of energy simulation in logistics to give a comprehensive overview and present exemplary case studies. Furthermore, we show a classification of approaches to combine energy aspects with simulation. Finally, we will discuss open questions and future trends in this field of research.
Currently, an efficient machining of high-performance materials, such as titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V, represents a challenge in manufacturing. For the reduction of high cutting temperatures, micro-textured CVD diamond th...
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Currently, an efficient machining of high-performance materials, such as titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V, represents a challenge in manufacturing. For the reduction of high cutting temperatures, micro-textured CVD diamond thick film cutting tools establish new potentials regarding the process productivity. The application of micro-textures allows a reduced contact area between chip and tool in order to decrease the generation of heat. Furthermore, a direct application of lubricant into the cutting zone is possible. The present study investigates the influence of micro-textured CVD diamond thick film cutting tools on the resulting process forces, chip formation as well as maximum cutting volumes during turning process. Part of the investigations was a variation of micro-texture trajectory with micro-textures parallel to the major cutting edge, perpendicular to the bisector of corner angle ε and curved along the cutting edge. The analyses showed that both positive and negative effects occur using micro-textures. The forces can be reduced by 14 % whereas the use of micro-textures leads to higher feed forces F f by 21 % as well as an additional notch effect in the micro-texture bottom.
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) approaches are predominantly based on supervised deep learning and benefit from large amounts of labeled data—an expensive resource. Data augmentation enriches labeled datasets by add...
Human Activity Recognition (HAR) approaches are predominantly based on supervised deep learning and benefit from large amounts of labeled data—an expensive resource. Data augmentation enriches labeled datasets by adding synthetic data, which is substantially cheaper, and often results in improved model performance, but is very rarely used for sensor data. This work explores data augmentation for inertial-sensor-based HAR by transforming the data through physically interpretable operations. The main studies were conducted on the Opportunity and the Overhead Car Assembly (OCA) datasets. For these experiments, only 20% of the available training data were used, and the experiments were conducted in an 8-fold cross-validation procedure over different subsets of the training *** results show that simple geometric augmentations can be beneficial in many cases. Timewarping proved to offer the most reliable single augmentation, improving the average F1 score of Opportunity from 0.570 to 0.597 and of OCA Mixed from 0.884 to 0.906. Combining augmentations improved the accuracy in almost all scenarios but to a degree comparable to timewarping. Applying augmentations on all the available training data improved the F1 score compared to the base case with no augmentations, although this effect is more pronounced for datasets with more similar training and test data: for the OCA Mixed variant, the average F1 score improved from 0.917 to 0.933, while for the OCA Leave-One-Out (LOT) variant, the average F1 score did not significantly change. For Opportunity, which similarly to OCA LOT uses a participant-based training-test split, the F1 score improved from 0.684 to 0.697.
German engineering companies with their focus on mechanical solutions and technical excellence are currently going through a major change in their value creation – digitalization of products processes and the digital...
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German engineering companies with their focus on mechanical solutions and technical excellence are currently going through a major change in their value creation – digitalization of products processes and the digital transformation of the entire organization. Comparable to the introduction of service-oriented business twenty years ago, digitalization comprises the opportunity to enhance the existing offer portfolio in terms of product individualization, reduced scrap or lead times, but at the same time creates extremely deviating requirements regarding innovation management, business models, commercial structures as well as company culture. At the same time, successful examples from the consumer industry or best practices in general cannot be applied as a one-to-one copy due to the different market situation and boundary conditions. This paper thus reviews the major challenges engineering companies are currently facing. It evaluates existing models and approaches from the consumer industry with respect to their applicability in engineering and finally provides best practices and examples from the EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) market as well as their implementation strategy.
Smart products are increasingly penetrating the market. They extend cyber-physical systems with Internet-based services and thus enable customer-specific adaptations and updates of products in the field. For industria...
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Hybrid designs with the combination of metal and long fiber reinforced thermoplastics (LFT) offer a great opportunity to reduce component weight for automotive applications. Production costs are typically high due to ...
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Hybrid designs with the combination of metal and long fiber reinforced thermoplastics (LFT) offer a great opportunity to reduce component weight for automotive applications. Production costs are typically high due to complex processes and challenging end machining. A complete manufacturing process chain for simultaneous hybrid design production is presented. Hybrid forming, a manufacturing process combining metal sheet forming, LFT compression molding and bonding, was developed to manufacture an automotive lightweight component, finally end machined by innovative waterjet techniques. Besides optimizing waterjet end machining strategies, waterjet controlled-depth machining was used to remove LFT material selectively, resulting in increased hybrid production flexibility.
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